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Video of FDNY working inside of the School.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — An electrical fire broke out in the ceiling of a home on Eastern Parkway. The incident took place at around 9:00pm on Motzoai Shabbos inside of 821 Eastern Parkway between Kingston and Albany on the third floor.

The father of the household first noticed the fire while he was exercising when he smelled the acrid smell of smoke and quickly evacuated the entire house and called 911. FDNY arrived as flames and thick smoke was pouring out of the ceiling of the house and the quickly went to work on dousing the fire.

More in the Extended Article.

Fire Displaces Large Jewish Family Last Night

Video of FDNY working inside of the School.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — An electrical fire broke out in the ceiling of a home on Eastern Parkway. The incident took place at around 9:00pm on Motzoai Shabbos inside of 821 Eastern Parkway between Kingston and Albany on the third floor.

The father of the household first noticed the fire while he was exercising when he smelled the acrid smell of smoke and quickly evacuated the entire house and called 911. FDNY arrived as flames and thick smoke was pouring out of the ceiling of the house and the quickly went to work on dousing the fire.

More in the Extended Article.

Firefighters also went to work in the two adjacent buildings, a home and the Darchai Menachem School after occupants reported that there was smoke there too. The neighboring home was damaged by the flames extending from the original fire, while the school did not sustain any fire damage, only the stench of smoke and some broken doors and ceilings.

Boruch Hashem there were no reported injuries.

A Darchai Menachem teacher told CrownHeights.info that classes were temporarily moved to the Zal until the damage will be repaired, and that today’s day of learning was dedicated to in thanks to Hashem for keeping the entire family safe last night.

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17 Comments

  • him, that guy

    Yes the hechts they went an extra mile and are still keeping some people in their house.

    everyone was, is, ok

    it was incredible seeing all the naibors, hechts, the school, hatzalah, shomrim, and family all workin together till wee hours in the morning.

  • mendel jacobson

    hi meir gershovitz is my chavrusa i cant beleive this happened i hope everything is ok and didnt lose any valubles
    cause thats were the albums odd to be on the third floor by the parents room

  • Curious

    I don’t get why they have to break the doors down when there is no immediate danger (so it seems from the clip – if they had a guy taking a video so calmly and a civilian as seen at the end)

    glad all are ok

  • guy in the video

    actually, I was the one you saw in the video. i had the keys to those doors with me, but they were not interested in listening to either me, or the person taking the video, they did what they wanted without even paying attention to us.

  • 9th grade dance

    WE LOVE YOU YOCHEVED YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FROM YOUR DANCE!! B”H YOU AND UR FAM ARE OK!!
    oh and btw the turners took in 2 girls to!!!! go turners!!!!!

  • PERSON

    I DONT KNOW WHY THE FIREMEN WHERE SO CALMLY TAKING A VIDEO BUT WHAT THEY DID WAS NOT CALM AT ALL THE HOUSE IS COMPLETELY RUINED AND THE FIRE DESTROYED EVERYTHING!!!!! WHAT IT DIDNT DESTROY THE FIREMEN DID!!!
    ITS A MIRACLE THAT ALL THE KIDS GOT OUT SAFELY!!! THANK GOD!!!! WE SHOULD HEAR ONLY GOOD NEWS!!!

  • reader

    Learn and teach sefer hamitzvos-the sefer hamitzvos for the 21st of Shvat when the fire occurred was about damage caused by fire. May Hashem help the family recover from the fire and bless them with riches.

  • ---

    Were sorry to hear this news,
    we hope that everything will come back to its original state, and will even be nicer then that.
    May Hashem help!